The Future of Criminology

Edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh

The top authorities in the criminology field assess the accomplishments, challenges, and prospects of the five important areas of criminological knowledge (development and causation, criminal careers and justice, prevention, intervention and treatment, and public policy).

Looks substantively and critically toward the future of criminology.

The Future of Criminology

Edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh

Description

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study. In recent decades, the study of the causes, development, prevention, and treatment of juvenile delinquency and adult crime has produced many important discoveries. This volume addresses two questions about crucial topics facing criminology - from causation to prevention to public policy: Where are we now? What does the future hold? Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh lead a team of more than forty top scholars from across the world to present the future of research, policy, and practice in the discipline.

The Future of Criminology

Edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh

Table of Contents

ContentsForeword: Looking Back and Forward David P. FarringtonA Future of Criminology and a Criminologist for the Ages Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. WelshContributorsI. DEVELOPMENT AND CAUSATION1. Some Future Trajectories for Life Course Criminology D. Wayne Osgood2. Does the Study of the Age-Crime Curve have a Future? Rolf Loeber3. Developmental Origins of Aggression: From Social Learning to Epigenetics Richard E. Tremblay4. Biology of Crime: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy5. Self-Control, Then and Now Terrie E. Moffitt6. Criminological Theory: Past Achievements and Future Challenges Terence P. Thornberry7. Individuals' Situational Criminal Actions: Current Knowledge and Tomorrow's Prospects Per-Olof H. Wikström8. Lack of Empathy and Offending: Implications for Tomorrow's Research and Practice Darrick Jolliffe and Joseph Murray9. Person-in-Context: Insights and Issues in Research on Neighborhoods and Crime Gregory M. Zimmerman and Steven F. Messner10. Risk and Protective Factors in the Assessment of School Bullies and VictimsMaria M. Ttofi and Peter K. Smith11. Adult Onset Offending: Perspectives for Future Research Georgia Zara12. The Next Generation of Longitudinal StudiesMagda Stouthamer-LoeberII. CRIMINAL CAREERS AND JUSTICE13. Research on Criminal Careers: Part 1: Contributions, Opportunities, and Needs Alfred Blumstein14. Research on Criminal Careers: Part 2: Looking Back to Predict Ahead Alex R. Piquero15. The Harvesting of Administrative Records: New Problems, Great Potential Howard N. Snyder16. Twenty-Five Years of Developmental Criminology: What We Know, What We Need to KnowMarc Le Blanc17. Pushing Back the Frontiers of Knowledge on Desistance from CrimeLila Kazemian18. Does Psychopathology Appear Fully Only in Adulthood? Raymond R. CorradoIII. PREVENTION19. Preventing Delinquency by Putting Families First Brandon C. Welsh20. The Future of Preventive Public Health: Implications of Brain Violence Research Frederick P. Rivara21. John E. Eck and Rob T. Guerette22. Community Approaches to Preventing Crime and Violence: The Challenge of Building Prevention Capacity Ross Homel and Tara Renae McGee23. Taking Effective Crime Prevention to Scale: From School-Based Programs to Community-Wide Prevention Systems J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, Karl G. Hill, and Rick KostermanIV. INTERVENTION AND TREATMENT24. The Human Experiment in Treatment: A Means to the End of Offender Recidivism Doris Layton MacKenzie and Gaylene Styve Armstrong25. Towards a Third Phase of 'What Works' in Offender Rehabilitation Friedrich Lösel26. Raising the Bar: Transforming Knowledge to Practice for Children in Conflict with the LawLeena K. Augimeri and Christopher J. Koegl27. Intervening with Violence: Priorities for Reform from a Public Health Perspective Jonathan P. Shepherd28. How to Reduce the Global Homicide Rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060 Manuel Eisner and Amy NivetteV. PUBLIC POLICY STRATEGIES29. The Problem with Macro-Criminology James Q. Wilson30. Staking Out the Next Generation of Studies of the Criminology of Place: Collecting Prospective Longitudinal Data at Crime Hot SpotsDavid Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Justin Ready31. The Futures of Experimental Criminology Lawrence W. Sherman32. Stopping Crime Requires Successful Implementation of What Works Irvin Waller33. The Future of Sentencing and Its Control Michael Tonry

The Future of Criminology

Edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh

Author Information

Rolf Loeber is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development at the Free University, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Brandon C. Welsh is a Professor of Criminology at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.

Contributors:

Leena K. Augimeri is the Director of the Centre for Children Committing Offences & Program Development, Child Development Institute and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto, Canada. Alfred Blumstein is a University Professor and the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research and former Dean (from 1986 to 1993) at the H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy and Management of Carnegie Mellon University. Richard Catalano is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence and Director of the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. Raymond Corrado is a Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University and co-Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility. John E. Eck is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Manuel Eisner is Professor of Comparative and Developmental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh. Rob T. Guerette is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University. J. David Hawkins is Endowed Professor of Prevention and Founding Director of the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington. Karl G. Hill is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington's School of Social Work. Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Darrick Jolliffe is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester and a Chartered Scientist. Lila Kazemian is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Christopher Koegl is the Director of Research at the Ontario Correctional Institute and Senior Research Associate with the Centre of Children Committing Offences at the Child Development Institute. Rick Kosterman is a research scientist with the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington. Brian Lawton is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. Rolf Loeber is Distinguished University Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and Professor of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Development, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Friedrich Lösel is Director of the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University (UK) and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). Doris Layton MacKenzie is Director, Justice Center for Research, and Professor of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice at The Pennsylvania State University. ATara Renae McGee is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Deputy Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University. Steven F. Messner is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Terrie E. Moffitt studies how genetic and environmental risks work together to shape the developmental course of abnormal human behaviors, crime, and psychiatric disorders. Joseph Murray is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University. Amy Nivette is a Ph.D. student in the Institute of Criminology at the Cambridge University, UK. D. Wayne Osgood is Professor of Crime, Law and Justice and Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, lead editor of the journal Criminology, and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Alex R. Piquero is Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas, Adjunct Professor Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance, Griffith University, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Jill Portnoy is a graduate student in criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Adrian Raine is University Professor and the Richard Perry Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Justin Ready is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Frederick P. Rivara is the holder of the Seattle Children's Guild Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics and adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Jonathan Shepherd is Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Vice Dean at Cardiff University where he directs the Violence Research Group. Lawrence W. Sherman is Wolfson Professor of Criminology at Cambridge University, where he is the Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology and Director of the Police Executive Programme, both at the Institute of Criminology, and a Fellow of Darwin College.Peter K. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Unit for School and Family Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K. Howard N. Snyder is Deputy Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics within the U.S. Department of Justice. Magda Stouthamer-Loeber is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology (retired). Terence P. Thornberry is Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Michael Tonry is Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota Law School and senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Free University Amsterdam.Richard E. Tremblay is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Montreal, Professor of Early Childhood Development at University College Dublin, and coordinator of the Marie Curie International Network on Early Childhood Development. Maria Ttofi is Leverhulme-Newton Trust Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the Cambridge University. Irvin Waller is a Professor at the University of Ottawa and author of popular books for legislators and taxpayers. David Weisburd is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University and Director of its Center for Evidence Based Crime Policy.Brandon C. Welsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Per-Olof H. Wikström is Professor of Ecological and Developmental Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Professorial Fellow of Girton College. James Q. Wilson was Professor of Government at Harvard for 26 years and then Professor of Public Policy at the University of California Los Angeles for 12 years. He now teaches at Pepperdine University.Georgia Zara is Associate Professor of Criminal Psychology, University of Turin, Italy, and is a Visiting Scholar of the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, UK. Gregory M. Zimmerman is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.

The Future of Criminology

Edited by Rolf Loeber and Brandon C. Welsh

Reviews and Awards

"Criminology has entered into a new era in which standard ideas are being revised or replaced by fresh theoretical and empirical investigations. In The Future of Criminology, Rolf Loeber and Brandon Welsh capture the field's dynamic nature by pulling together, under one cover, diverse ideas of where criminology should head. Written by leading scholars, the volume's contributions provide lucid and compelling assessments of how best to think about crime and its control. Every scholar should keep this book close at hand and consult it regularly."--Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati

"Inspired by David Farrington, one of the world's foremost scholars of criminology, The Future of Criminology is designed to be a 'state of the art' collection of essays delineating criminology's contribution to our understanding of crime prevention and its control. It succeeds admirably as a diverse group of leading scholars summarize, integrate, and extend previous work on child delinquency, criminal careers, psychopathology, high-risk families and communities, and experimental criminology. Researchers, policymakers, and students will benefit greatly from a close study of its chapters."-- Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

"This set of contributions, by forty world-renowned criminologists, constitutes a cutting-edge volume for future generations of scholars to take the baton from David Farrington."--Gerben Bruinsma, Director of Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam